Symbol Technologies Implements Total Parts Plus' Content Adapter for Agile's PLM Solution
October 04 2006 - 11:57AM
PR Newswire (US)
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Total
Parts Plus (TPP), a leading provider of obsolescence and
environmental compliance solutions and data content, and Agile
Software Corporation (NASDAQ:AGIL), a leading provider of product
lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, announce that Symbol
Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:SBL), has implemented the Total Parts Plus
Content Adapter for Agile. Symbol is a recognized leader in
providing mobility products and solutions that make people more
effective by keeping them connected to business applications and
information. The Content Adapter allows Symbol to directly access
TPP's component information from within their Agile PLM solution
and improves collaboration across its extended supply chain.
Through this adapter, customers such as Symbol are able to leverage
comprehensive content from TPP for use in Agile's Product
Governance and Compliance (PG&C) solution. Agile's PG&C
solution helps ensure compliance with product design goals
including environmental directives such as the European Restriction
of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (WEEE). Customers can gain direct access to TPP's
component information including production status, lifecycle
predictions, RoHS flagging, and full material content disclosure.
"TPP and Agile share a common goal in providing a complete solution
to Symbol," said Todd Montgomery, Vice President of Total Parts
Plus. "We have combined our services, creating a user-friendly
interface to provide realtime access to customers. The
implementation of the Content Adapter illustrates the value of
integrating component information into a PLM solution to solve our
customer's problems." "We are excited to partner with Total Parts
Plus and provide customers like Symbol with the ability to ensure
compliance with product design goals, by locating and analyzing
component data stored in the Total parts Plus Content Database,"
said Chris Wong, Agile executive vice president, corporate
strategy. Paul Spengler, Components Engineering Group Manager at
Symbol, stated that "the ability to access TPP's data from the
Agile PLM tool not only allows realtime access to component
information, but also saves us a tremendous amount of time from
having to open multiple tools and merge data." About Total Parts
Plus, Inc. Total Parts Plus specializes in obsolescence management
and environmental compliance solutions in the form of data content,
web-based products, and custom engineering services. TPP's suite of
products and services provide information and reporting for
Obsolescence Management, RoHS Compliance, Berry Amendment,
Alternate Equivalents, Alternate Sourcing, PCN data, and Life Cycle
Predictions. Total Parts Plus, which was founded in 2000, is a
member of the Component Obsolescence Group (COG), NEDA and IPC. TPP
has customers in over 30 countries worldwide and continues to be
the leading provider of supply chain and material content data and
management tools on the market. For more information on Total Parts
Plus, call 850-244-7293 or visit http://www.totalpartsplus.com/.
About Agile Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ:AGIL) helps
companies drive profits, accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and
ensure regulatory compliance throughout the product lifecycle. With
a broad suite of enterprise-class PLM solutions, time-to-value
focused implementations, Agile helps companies get the most from
their products. Alcatel, Bayer, Dell Inc., Flextronics
International, Foxconn, Harris, Hitachi, Leapfrog, Lockheed Martin,
Magna Steyr, Playtex, Siemens, Quanta, QUALCOMM and ZF are among
the over 10,000 customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense,
consumer products, electronics, high tech, industrial products, and
life sciences industries that have licensed Agile solutions. For
more information, call 408-284-4000 or visit http://www.agile.com/.
About Symbol Technologies, Inc. Symbol Technologies, Inc.
(NYSE:SBL) has for over 30 years led the way in providing
full-service, integrated enterprise mobility solutions. Symbol is a
global, $1 billion+ company with headquarters in the United States
and operations in more than 50 countries. Enhancing a company's
most important business applications makes its employees more
productive and efficient and provides the confidence and success
needed to move forward. Symbol holds 900+ patents in the areas of
laser bar code scanning, imaging bar code scanning, RFID, laser
projection displays, mobile computing technologies and wireless
technologies, among others. Symbol also has 5,000+ associates
worldwide, 45,000 wireless local area networks (WLANs) installed,
and 7 million mobile computers and scanners in use. For more
information, call 631-738-2400 or visit http://www.symbol.com/.
DATASOURCE: Total Parts Plus, Inc. CONTACT: Todd Montgomery, Vice
President, Total Parts Plus, Inc., +1-850-244-7293, or ; or Terri
Pruett of Agile Software Corporation, +1-408-284-4048, or
+1-408-284-4000, or Web site: http://www.totalpartsplus.com/
http://www.agile.com/ http://www.symbol.com/
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